Another entry

To show my commitment to this blogging thing, I finally replaced my lovely, but dysfunctional Canon Powershot A80 with a much slimmer, lighter, and altogether more neat Powershot SD770 IS. Though it does have more MPs (10 v. 4), a bigger screen, and a longer name to boot, it does lose one of the endearing features of the A80, the folding screen which enables exotic gymnastic maneuvers like the around the corner shot, the extended-arm height shot, and the "check it out, I have a flippy screen" shot. Oh well.

Barring the occasional off-brand peripheral or cable (more on that later), I buy my stuff on Amazon.com, because they're helpful, cheap, fast and have everything, so I went there for my new Elph, and got a good deal to boot. Yesterday I got the standard "your Amazon order has shipped" email, but when I looked at my order...
Boo! Why Amazon? I'm sure there's a good reason the camera didn't ship at the same time as another thing I added on there (taking advantage of the super-saver shipping), but it's such a tease..

FYI, the other thing I got was a Ratatouille Little Golden Book. I'm sure you've seen these books, they're sold at supermarkets and drugstores generally, but spurned by some posts by Jerry at Cartoon Brew, I took a closer look at a couple of titles while food-shopping, and ended up buying LGBs of Bolt and the Pixar short Presto. These really are charming books, aptly described by some as "mini art-of" books, and they only cost 3.99!


Here's the comment on cables: Maybe it's because I'm used to eBay prices from Hong Kong on A/V cables, but the brick and mortar store prices I've seen are simply ridiculous. I went to Radio Shack yesterday for a 6 foot S-Video cable (around $4 on eBay) and it was over $25 (!-not to mention a lot of attitude, I don't know how they stay in business). Best Buy wasn't much better at $19. I ultimately got it for $12 at Staples. The situation's even worse with DVI/HDMI cables. Come on, guys.

Hopefully the next post will have a while bunch of cool and interesting pictures taken with my new camera, including my current bike projects...